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Ex-Speaker Hastert Enters Prison as Inmate No. 47991-424

The 74-year-old Republican is one of the highest-ranking U.S. politicians to ever go to prison

Associated Press

June 22, 2016 6:40 p.m. ET

CHICAGO—Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert wheeled himself into a federal prison in Minnesota on Wednesday to serve his 15-month sentence in a hush-money case involving revelations that he sexually abused at least four boys while a high school wrestling coach in Illinois.

The 74-year-old Republican—one of the highest-ranking U.S. politicians to ever go to prison—arrived around noon at the facility in Rochester where he will be known as Inmate No. 47991-424.